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10 Pfennig - Pforzheim Kollmar and Jourdan A.G.
| Issuer | Kollmar & Jourdan A.G., Pforzheim |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A continuous solid line rim frames the design, with a circular legend reading KOLLMAR & JOURDAN A.G. and PFORZHEIM separated by six-pointed stars at the periphery. At center, the conjoined initials K.J. are prominently displayed with an arrow device passing diagonally through them, a characteristic monogram of the issuing firm. The date 1916 appears within the central field below the monogram. The overall design is utilitarian in character, consistent with World War I-era German notgeld emergency coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | KOLLMAR & JOURDAN A.G. K.J 1916 ★ PFORZHEIM ★ |
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Kollmar & Jourdan was one of Pforzheim's prominent jewelry and metalware manufacturers, and like dozens of German industrial firms in 1916, it was pressed into service as an emergency currency issuer when the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions gutted the normal coin supply. Zinc was the compromise material — iron was militarily essential, copper increasingly so, and the traditional silver and nickel coinage had long since vanished into hoarding and melting.
Pforzheim's notgeld issues from this period are unusually well-documented by Menzel's reference catalogs, which is why two distinct catalog numbers exist for variants within this type.